Is Kia Ora Gaza a hate group?

New Zealand group, Kia Ora Gaza claims to be a humanitarian organisation dedicated to delivering aid to Gaza, breaking “Israel’s siege” of Gaza, “fostering fraternal relations”, and “enhancing the understanding of the Middle East”.

The reality is that Kia Ora Gaza’s activities are hardly humanitarian, and it actively works against peace and reconciliation between the Palestinians and Israelis. In effect it works to prolong the conflict, while fomenting hate and distrust through a deliberate campaign of misinformation and incitement.

In short, Kia Ora Gaza is a hate group. How do we know this? Quite simply, we listened to its rhetoric, the rhetoric of its representatives, and reviewed and analysed what it posts on its website and onsocial media.

Harriet

LOL so did Peter Dunn during the last election – and look where he is now – in with JK as his immigration minister.

“….Sadly this group gets support from Maori TV, so is effectively taxpayer funded….”

Again, so too does Peter Dunn.

Key should have put the boot into Dunns arse during the election campaign over his anti-Israeli statements – but he didn’t- and it has given the likes of Kia Ora Gaza the confidence to keep attacking Israel.

Key at times is a total idiot. He never seems to have the confidence to shut down an argument, instead he prefers to keep them going – and now look at what has happened —- Dunn has made him look fucking stupid! 😎

Mobile Michael

If Hamas stopped its attacks from Gaza, recognised Israel as legitimate and requested peaceful dialogue a Palestinian State would be a reality in a decade or so. But if Israel ended its blockade and didn’t act against Hamas terrorism it would just get more bombs, more rockets and less peace.

Nick R

itstricky

A partisan site for Israelis declares a partisan site for Palestinians to be a hate site? Gosh, I’m intrigued – wait, no I’m not. What a steaming turd of a post.

Hmm. We talking Kia Ora Gaza…or the Irgun and Stern Gang/Lehi?

LOL.

Where are EAD and Reid when you need to them to interpret the hidden second meaning of ‘Kia Ora’ that will show that these people are actually dangerous, highly trained, military killers? (Who get funding from Maori TV)

Of course it’s a hate group. I didn’t think they were even trying to hide the fact

Just look at their FB feed. Any comment that is vaguely arguing KOG is deleted immediately. However comments such as “they [Jews] control the media”, “The Jewish Talmud is evil”, “IsraHELL”, “Israel must be destroyed” is totally acceptable.

eandlbufe

The Jews have lived in Israel longer than the Maori have lived in NZ. Their is no such a nation as Palestinians, they are just a conglomerate of exiled people that had been kicked out of Jordan and Syria and feisted on Israel. Gaza and the Palestine are just settlements and the land was never stolen from them. I have to ask the question of the stupid bunch of racists that belong Kia Ora Gaza. What would happen to Gaza if the Jews left Israel? The answer would be more refugees going to the EU.

When he was campaigning for office in Berlin, Joseph Goebbels wrote a piece on how Berlin’s Jews were responsible for much of the city’s crime. As above, it mixed some relevant facts with some irrelevant ones and some propaganda spin to foment hate against a particular ethnic group. It was very well done, not least because, although the argument was a steaming turd, presenting counter-arguments would have involved lending the turd credence by treating it as something other than contemptible propaganda.

David Garrett

I am in some unusual company on this one….Kimbo @ 8.24 pretty much nails it … whatever either side says about the other is pretty much propaganda.

The older commenters here will see what I have seen: in 50 years, absolutely NOTHING has changed…Pick up a TIME Magazine from the 60’s 70’s and 80’s…Aside from the changing names (and the changing print quality) Nothing has changed in the Middle East during the last 50 years…except perhaps that they haven’t been to war in a while.

I do have a Peace Plan, but it’s an extremely politically incorrect one: Nuclear detonations with the dirtiest weapons possible (to leave maximum fallout) on each of the area’s capital cities….(Of course that would be preceded by a warning giving ample time to get out of the various shit holes)

The result? A decimated wasteland where the “sacred sites” for each religion were obliterated, and the entire area made uninhabitable for 200 years…Of course that would never happen – at least not deliberately…But I truly believe that in 50 years if I was still alive I could still say “Nothing has changed there in 50 years”.

mikenmild

Mass murder will always be difficult to sell as a ‘Peace Plan’, DG.
What we are likely to see is more of the same, as you foresee. Possibly the eventual emergence of a full Palestinian state wit sufficient international backing to secure meaningful peace agreements. But I wouldn’t hold my breath.

mikenmild

I shouldn’t put it down to one side, Tim. It would take significant majorities in both countries to tire of war and seek peace instead. That’s not likely to happen – too many people have got their whole lives invested in the cycle of outrage and revenge.

mikenmild

Ha ha. I’m not going to have a go at thrashing around the ins-and-outs of why the Israelis and Palestinians are not able to come to any comprehensive agreement. Suffice to say that I don’t think the fault is with only one party.

David Garrett

Milky: Not at all…My plan would eliminate all the combatants and make the disputed territory something no-one would want to claim…

But you are very sensible to avoid any debate on the “ins and outs” of the Israeli Palestinian conflict…Greater minds than ours have tried to solve it over the past 50 years…with a singular lack of success, and ongoing bloodshed…

tranquil

Quote – “Hamas has finally admitted that it is the Egyptians, and not Israel, who have turned the Gaza Strip into a “big prison.”

Ghazi Hamad, a senior official with the Hamas-controlled foreign ministry, was quoted this week as saying that the Gaza Strip has been turned into a “big prison as a result of the continued closure of the Rafah border crossing by the Egyptian authorities since June 30.”

Hamad said that since then, the number of Palestinian travelers at the Rafah terminal has dropped from 1,200 to 200 per day.

But this is a story that has not found its way to the pages of mainstream newspapers in the West because it does not in any way “implicate” Israel. ”

The day that we see Minto and co protesting against the Egyptians will be the day that the sky turns green.

deadrightkev

Harriet

“Key at times is a total idiot. He never seems to have the confidence to shut down an argument, instead he prefers to keep them going – and now look at what has happened —- Dunn has made him look fucking stupid! ?’

Key is no idiot, he is an operator, a smart operator who knows what he is doing. Trouble is we desperately need a leader to reverse the progressivism he has been introducing. Key is not a leader.